BACK TO SQUARE ONE!!!

If there is something that frustrates me is doing something and ending up in the same place. I mean after all that work, I should be somewhere different, I should have grown or something…I know many of us have been in such a place, wondering why we are just doing rounds on the same mundane spot? Promising ourselves to do better next time and yet we still go back to ….SQUARE ONE!
Recently I found myself in such a position. I could not help feeling worn out…I mean I was still standing at the same spot I was standing a year ago- what have I been doing? Well, I have been doing something, the same thing, with the same results each time…I know am not alone, we rewind our genius ways waiting for salvation somewhere but really…who lied to us that if we do the same thing we will get different results? Trying out a different way may help…it may not necessarily work but it is worth the struggle. To me this is a serious challenge, the old way seems so secure, I know how to do it even with my eyes closed, and a sweet sense of security lies within old methods…however the rude awakening of the backfired results is never interesting.
This time around I am searching for different results. This is a big risk, I may lose the security I so cherished, but I may gain what I never thought I could have. Maybe you share this with me, being stuck in a rut. I challenge you to do it differently- completely differently might I add. Let’s not go round square one anymore. However it goes we are set to learn something new…I look forward with faith and strength…different approach=different results.
If all goes well you will have discovered the right method, if it does not go well, at least you have known how not to do it….cheers

ACHILLES' HEEL SYNDROME

For those who know me a bit well, they know I shudder at the thought of asking for directions in town. To some this is a simple task, but to me – no way! I can almost feel myself sweating should I have to do that. I cannot count the number of times I have gotten lost in some corner in town simply because I couldn’t ask. The number of times I have wondered about for hours on end looking for a building that happened to be just around the corner is countless. As I turned a year older in January, I realized the power of weaknesses….
In life heroes were brought down by their weaknesses, we know of Solomon and his many women, David and Bathsheba, King Ahab and his love for complements…all great men and women do have their Achilles’ heel. For anyone to bring us down, they just need to focus on our weaknesses. It is these weaknesses that have sold out many of us even in our own personal lives. We tend to concentrate so much in what we are good at and keep painting this near perfect image of strength and unshaken ability. The truth is, even the strongest of men do have their points of weaknesses.
The wisdom for this year for me has been learning that no matter how strong one is they can always be tipped over by their weaknesses. I don’t know where your weakness is but my suggestion is get to know it, get to master it. You can never really be 100% strong but you can learn how to handle your weaknesses. We lose too much in this life because of our weaknesses, yet the sad truth is that we gain less for our strengths.
This is not a trip for the faint at heart. It may require some deep searching of self, some unimaginable and painful admissions (worse than the one I have just made) and at best some cold hard truth. However this is a trip set to save us from destruction, from the loss of all that we struggle to build. Maybe you should take a moment to think about this. Don’t waste time looking at how to strengthen your strengths while the enemy is busy looking at how to break you apart with your weaknesses.
A while back someone said to me, you can never lie to yourself, the devil and God. This is no easy task (especially for those of us who don’t like admitting fear/defeat) but it is bound to be life saving. For me, God forbid the day I will miss a great opportunity simply because I got late wondering around instead of asking for directions. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link – how strong is your weak link?? This is a lifelong project, even for me it will take time for me to comfortably ask for directions, but the thought that it could be my Achilles’ heel, my weak link…then I have to do something about it. For the remaining part of the year become much stronger by facing your weaknesses in the face and dealing with them…walk this journey with God-and a friend if you may, it is worth the steps…